I want well-produced news radio but I will never write a check to NPR or the local stations however, because it seems like all they ever talk about is Government. I wish I could. I love the jazz shows at night. And I would not mind if they spent maybe 10% of their time talking about issues relating to Government and from a more objective angle.

This article http://www.mises.org/story/1928 makes a point that has occurred to me several times in recent weeks. Marketplace is an anti-market program and it is ostensibly the least Government-focused of all their news programs.

Now the only question is, why do I keep listening? Probably because I do not yet have the iPod-ready beamer or satellite radio. Hmmm...

I live in a little lakeside community halfway between Moses Lake and Othello WA--OK OK, its very near the end of world. But I do get NPR in both the classical music and news version--and while the reporters have adopted the snarky BBC tone, it is still an important source of news; of course, I also read the blogs to find out what is really going on, but NPR is still a resource--not a good one, but one that tells me what many of the so-called "elites" will be saying.

Terrye: look at the advantages of listening to NPR: you can get your stomach acid level up, which will make you go out and buy zantac, which will increase the power of pharmaceutical companies, which will crush the American people under their heel.

I mean: is that a good scenario or what--and DAMN--I would HATE to be a cow upon whose udder you were pulling when you listened to NPR--You could have been charged with animal abuse.

Those poor cows. They went through life believing NPR made their teats raw. Of course, there was truth to it when they were hanging out chatting and said stuff like, "I hate that NPR. You just can't give them enough milk. The more you give the harder they pump. There's not enough milk in the world to satisfy those loons. They won't be happy till they wring somebody's teat off!"